Ancient Myths That Turned Out To Be True

For about two thousand years, historians rolled their eyes at myths. Then somebody went and dug where the stories said to dig. Here are eight legends that turned out to be at least partly true: Troy, the Amazons, the Kraken, the Cyclops, dragon bones, the little people of Flores, the Great Flood and Gilgamesh. 00:00 Intro 00:42 Troy 02:35 The Amazons 03:59 The Kraken 05:18 The Cyclops 06:28 The Dragon Bones 07:42 The Little People of Flores 08:50 The Great Flood 10:02 Gilgamesh 11:18 Outro Some of these are firmly confirmed, others are still debated (the Black Sea flood hypothesis, a link between the Ebu Gogo legends and Homo floresiensis, and the exact date and nature of Gilgamesh), and the video says which is which. #mythology #ancienthistory #archaeology #history #TheRealMythReport Credits Music: "Adventure theme #9" by BloodPixelHero (https://freesound.org/s/696408/), CC BY 4.0. Images (Wikimedia Commons): Windmemories (CC BY-SA 4.0); NASA (public domain); Auckland War Memorial Museum (CC BY 4.0); Barbara Armbruster (CC BY-SA 4.0); Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wellcome Collection (CC BY 4.0); Rama (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr); Gary Todd (CC0); The Illustrated London News (public domain); Library of Congress (public domain); Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0); Ray from Queens (CC BY-SA 2.0); Jorge Lascar (CC BY 2.0); Hulton-Deutsch Collection (CC0); Semhur / PequoD76 (CC BY-SA 3.0); Ghedoghedo (CC BY-SA 3.0); Gts-tg (CC BY-SA 4.0); Christian Barmala (CC BY 2.0); CherryX (CC BY-SA 3.0); Othenio Abel portrait and a whaling print (public domain).